In the Jim Crow South of the 1930s and '40s, in poor, rural Georgia, forbidden love struggles up through the briars. The teens, Bayou and Leanne, find they can be together only in the dead of night, signaling each other with paper planes. The message received, they head for their spot — a tree away from prying eyes.
"You are the song that I long to hear once more/ You are the light that I keep looking for," sings a velvety young female voice after the story's over: "And I'll spend my lifetime/ Sending paper airplanes to the moon/ Praying they get to you."
The movie is Tyler Perry's "A Jazzman's Blues"; the song is "Paper Airplanes," by Canadian singer-songwriter Ruth B.
